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Atheists attack God. Everyone laughs at Atheists.

October 23, 2008 Aurvant 1 comment

Seriously, this is so bad it’s hilarious

Some Atheists in Britain got their undies up in a bunch and how they’ve decided to spend money making themselves look like total douchebags. Good going.

The sides of some of London’s red buses will soon carry ads asserting there is “probably no God,” as nonbelievers fight what they say is the preferential treatment given to religion in British society.

“Oh Lord, Make my enemies ridiculous”

The ad campaign is obviously meant to enrage and insult anyone who considers themselves a believer. However, it would seem that it has had the opposite effect with sitting members of many religions.

Few believers appeared offended by the campaign, although most doubted it would work.

“I think people will ask themselves, ‘On what basis can they make that statement?” said Inayat Bunglawala of the Muslim Council of Britain. “So it will get people thinking, so in that sense it can only be good.”

The Muslim’s aren’t offended.

The Rev. Jenny Ellis, spirituality and discipleship officer for the Methodist Church, welcomed the ads.

“This campaign will be a good thing if it gets people to engage with the deepest questions of life,” she said.

The Christians aren’t offended either.

Looks like nobody is offended except for other atheists, and that one atheist would, predictably, be Richard Dawkins who wrote the “The God Delusion”. Dawkins claims that they ads will “provoke thought” and that thinking is “Anathema to religion”. Uh, no, Dick, its not. Viciously attacking a person because they have faith, writing books and making public statements that God is an imaginary figure, and claiming that religion is a disease counts as Anathema.

However, questions and deep thinking is NOT anathema.

While Dawkins seems to support the ad campaign he does complain that the ads include the word “probably” in their signs. Obviously Dawkins wanted a more direct and blunt message along the lines of “There is definitely no God” but since neither science nor any amount of outside-the-box thinking can prove that I suppose he’ll just have to deal with it.

Climate Change – Like a freight train!

October 23, 2008 Aurvant Leave a comment

Seriously, Climate Change is getting a Six million dollar man upgrade.

The World Wildlife Fund, obviously not happy with the lack of news regarding anything to do with Climate Change, has decided to ring the doom bells once again to let everyone else know that Global Warming is still out there and lurking. One bit of information they bring up is interesting however:

One of the most concerning aspects of recent data is evidence that, in some places, the Arctic Ocean is losing sea ice 30 years ahead of current IPCC predictions.

Summer sea ice is now forecasted to completely disappear in the summer months sometime between 2013 and 2040 — something which hasn’t happened for over a million years.

Oh really? The Arctic ice is melting some 30 years ahead of current predictions? Well, World Wildlife Fund, actual empirical data would like to have a word with you.

Watts has a lot of scientific language on the site regarding the actual evidence. However, to put it in simple terms the Arctic Ice has grown by 28.7% compared to what we had last year and we are now above the levels we had in 2005. The good news? It’s still growing and the Artic ice is reforming and growing every day. Obviously, someone is either lying or just hasn’t done their homework on what is actually happening in the Arctic ocean, but considering Watts actually gives data to back up their claims….I’m gonna have to go ahead and say that CNN and the World Wildlife Fund are just trying to peddle off more Global Warming alarmism to keep pushing that agenda forward.

Nothing out of the ordinary really.